Here's my configuration:
Plants in a 1" x 2" bin in a closet.
Three 19w Daylight CFLs (1100 lumens each), plus one 22w soft white CFL trained 5 inches away from plant one.
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Three 19w Daylight CFLs (1100 lumens each), plus one 22w soft white CFL trained 5 inches on plant two.
Is that too weak? Am I wasting my time with all those 19watters? (No store seems to have the daylight 22s.)
I'm calculating that I have about 4500 lumens trained on each plant, but they don't seem to be growing anywhere near as fast as I think they should be (based on the pics that I'm seeing online).
My oldest plant is almost 2 weeks old and just sprouting it's 2nd set of real leaves. It's still practically a seedling at almost 2 weeks.
Plants in a 1" x 2" bin in a closet.
Three 19w Daylight CFLs (1100 lumens each), plus one 22w soft white CFL trained 5 inches away from plant one.
- plus -
Three 19w Daylight CFLs (1100 lumens each), plus one 22w soft white CFL trained 5 inches on plant two.
Is that too weak? Am I wasting my time with all those 19watters? (No store seems to have the daylight 22s.)
I'm calculating that I have about 4500 lumens trained on each plant, but they don't seem to be growing anywhere near as fast as I think they should be (based on the pics that I'm seeing online).
My oldest plant is almost 2 weeks old and just sprouting it's 2nd set of real leaves. It's still practically a seedling at almost 2 weeks.